Designed to solicit opinions regarding the districtâ€™s $9.7 million budget gap, â€śTight Times, Tough Choices: Community Input Into the District Budgetâ€ť welcomes residents from the Upper Darby area to share their perspectives, so that school district officials can get a collective sense of their budgetary priorities for the 2013-14 school year.

Each community forum will begin with a brief presentation about the districtâ€™s current fiscal situation. Attendees will break into small groups for the heart of the forum, when theyâ€™ll review the budget options. At that point, these small groups will work through the realistic choices and trade-offs that face the school board and its administration.

The first â€śTight Times, Tough Choicesâ€ť community forums will be on Wednesday, Feb. 27, from 10 a.m. to noon at the Watkins Senior Center, 326 Watkins Ave. in Upper Darby.

On Tuesday, March 5, from 7 to 9 p.m., the forums continue at the Beverly Hills Middle School, 1400 Garrett Road. The third forum is Sunday, March 10, from 3 to 5 p.m. at Drexel Hill Middle School, 3001 State Road in Drexel Hill.

The last forum is scheduled for Monday, March 11, from 7 to 9 p.m. at Westbrook Park Elementary School, 199 Westbrook Drive in Clifton Heights.

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In a North Philadelphia rowhome, four students from the School of Veterinary Medicine are examining Pebbles, a friendly cocker spaniel. Sheâ€™s a little overweight but otherwise healthy. â€śShe has a great hairdo,â€ť fourth-year student Hannah MacAyeal tells Billy, Pebblesâ€™ owner.

Every April, athletes from around the globe make history at Franklin Field. This year, 16,368 high school, college, and professional athletes are competing in the 121st running of the Penn Relays, which is being held from Thursday, April 23 through Saturday, April 25.

At the fifth annual Philly Robotics Expo (PRX) on April 20, several hundred local grade-, middle-, and high-school students poured into the Singh Center for Nanotechnology with their machines in tow.
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